AHA calls for changes that address inequities in U.S. health care system
Improvements in the nation’s health care system – particularly changes that address inequities in care and the impact of social determinants of health – are necessary to achieve the goal to equitably increase healthy life expectancy in this country, according to a new advisory published by the American Heart Association (AHA).
The document was published in the journal Circulation as an AHA Presidential Advisory, a formal organizational review of the science and policy landscape surrounding urgent health issues that outlines key principles to guide practice, policy and research. The advisory includes core principles to ensure health care is adequate, accessible and affordable for everyone living in the United States. The principles build on health care advisories the AHA issued in 1993 and 2008, which guided the organization in evaluating federal and state health care proposals.